"Forks Over Knives presents evidence that a whole food plant-baed diet can prevent, and in many cases, reverse degenerative diseases."
This book provides all the information on the whole food plant-based diet and includes recipes to help you get started.
The Forks Over Knives book was released around the same time the Forks Over Knives hit documentary was released in the Spring of 2011.


I just picked up the book and still have not seen the documentary but will follow up after I've completed both. Although, I know the book is set up into 3 parts. Part 1 is about why a plant-based diet is best for you and your health, the plants and the animals. Part 2 consists of eating the Forks Over Knives way, how to read nutrition labels, guide to a plant-based diet, and tips for transitioning. Part 3 is all about recipes, from breakfast and non-dairy smoothies to entrees and desserts.

The documentary and book expose that many, if not all, degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, sometimes reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. I'm eager to watch this film which the major storyline traces the personal journeys of a pair of researchers; Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. The idea that food can be used as medicine is put to the test. Throughout the film, patients who have chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes are followed. They are taught by doctors how to adopt the whole food, plant-based diet to treat their ailments.


Here is a trailer for Forks Over Knives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPJbYAYzP04&feature=relmfu